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ATENT Y JOSEPH T. RICHMOND, OF ANTHONY, KANSAS.

GRAIN DUMP AND ELEVATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 552,145, dated December 31, 1895.

Application led December 27, 1894. Serial No. 533,133x (No model.)

To all wtont t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH T. RICHMOND, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Anthony, in the county of Harper and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Grain Dumps and Elevators, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference thereon, forming a part of this specification, in which* Figure l is a side elevation of the combined dump and elevator; Fig. 2, a sectional elevation of the dump-box thereof; Fig. 8, a side elevation of said elevator mechanism, and a sectional elevation of a building into which grain is stored; and Fig. 4 is a top view of the dump-box and of the wagon-inclines of the device. Y

This invention. relates to portable graindumps and elevator mechanism thereof for use in dumping grain from wagons and thereafter, by the travel of the wagon, operate mechanism to elevate the grain and deposit itin a place of storage and it consists in certain novel construction and-arrangement of the parts thereof, which are fully set forth and explained in the following speciiication and pointed out in the claims.

The object of this invention is to provide a grain-dump of such structure as to be portable, intact, and provided with means whereby, after the. grain is dumped, the grain is elevated and deposited in a place of storage by utilizing the power of the team hauling the wagon from which the grain has been dumped.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a graiirstorage building, having grain-doors D and D.

B represents a horizontal beam supported by means of short end cross-beams N N, which are supported on standards S, which are stepped in mud-sills S', and thereby, together with suitable braces, as shown, said structure forms a portable derrick, as the said mudsills are made to be hitched onto and hauled from place to place and thereby likewise transport the'parts supported on said sills.

E represents the grain dump-box, and is made with an opening L in one lower side portion thereof, and with a spout or chute J hinged to the lower margin of said opening, preferably by means of a leather hinge made in one piece, as shown at I, so there will be no space for leakage of grain at that place, and having a piece of canvas e attached jointly to the box and chute at each side to prevent the spill of grain at the sides of the chute adjacent the box; also a rope or chain g is arranged connecting the box and outer portionof the chute to prevent the chute lowering too far. Fixed in the floor of the said box E, adjacent the corners thereof, are formed eyebolts d, a bolt in each corner, which have connected to them the chains c and c', as shown, which chains extend diagonally upward to andare hooked jointly on a hook H, which is connected to a multiple pulley-block P. Above said block is a similar pulley-block P connected to beam B, and a rope R is passed about the pulleys of said blocks inthe manner usual in their use, with one end of the rope connecting one block and the opposite end portion of the rope passingfirst out laterally to and about a pulley Z, which is supported by beam B, thence down to and about a pulley Z@ which is attached to one mud-sill S', and thence laterally and terminates with a hook V.

^ In connecting the chains c c of box E with hook H those shown at c are shorter than those shown at c', and are by reason of their open links made adjustable to regulate the difference in said lengths, and thus when the pulley-block mechanism is operated to raise box E one side of the box will be raised higher than the opposite side, and thereby incline the floor of the box, as shown in Fig. 3, which incline is toward the opening L and chute J. Fixed to building A vertically central with grain-doors D D is a guide-strip G, against -which the end of chute J rests when the box E is lowered and in position to have grain dumped therein, and by means of which said chute is held against lowering during the elevating ofthe box until an open grain-door is reached, when the chute will lower by gravity and protrude the grain-door and assume automatically a position to permit the grain to tlow out of the box into the building, as represented in said Fig.A 3, and in lowering the box the said chute is, by means of said guide, brought back' to an upright position,

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as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3 and by full lines in Fig. 2, and in such upright position prevents the grain from iiowing from the box.

F represents inclines placed adjacent the standing position of box E and in the path of the wagon-wheels and are made with hori- Zontal section at their apex, as shown, and when hauling a wagon, as at W, to be dumped of its load it passes under beam B, while the box E is raised, and the front wheels thereof travel up the inclines and come to rest upon the said apex, (see Fig. 1,) while the team hauling the wagon travels between said inclines. The wagon thus brought to assume an inclined position has its end-gate opened and the grain therein is permitted to flow out and into box E, which, after such placing of the wagon, is lowered to its standing position in rear and partially under the rear end of the wagon-body. A scraper may be used to aid in fully emptying the wagon. Then the wagon is dumped and the contents in box E, the hook V of rope R is hooked on some portion of the wagon, (see Fig. 1,) when the team hauling the wagon is started, causing the travel of the wagon to draw on rope R and thus operate the pulley-block mechanism and raise or elevate box E to a height sufficient so the grain may be4 deposited within the building, as before stated.

I have shown the well-known pulley-block mechanism applied as a means for raising the dump-box E, and the pulleys thereof may be multiplied, as may be required, to render it suficiently easy to raise the loaded box; but I desire to state that other equivalent means may as well be employed in raisin said box.

I desire, further, to state thatother means of support maybe employed for beam B than that shown, and in some instances where it is desired to use the device permanently in one location the said beam may be supported by the building where the dump is operated.

The guide-strip G is made in sections in instances where the grain-storage house or bin is provided with two or more doors D and D', the first section of said strip extending up to the first or lower door. After the grain-storage house or bin has been filled to said first or lower door, said door is closed and another guide-strip section G is placed to join with the upper end of said former-placed strip, so as to extend up to theI next succeeding door, and thus continue said guide in height, as it becomes necessary in filling the storage house or bin. Other of said guide-strip sections may be used in like manner to extend to the higher doors of the storage house or bins, as occasion may require.

As before stated, the chains c c are made adjustable as to length, in order that the floor of the grain-box of the dump and elevator may be given different degrees of incline, which adjustment is made by taking up or letting out said chains which connect said box at its side opposite to its grain exit or chute, which taking up or letting out of said chains is accomplished by changing the links of said chains on the hook of the lower pulley-block of the hoisting or elevating mechanism of the dump and elevator apparatus, hereinbefore described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

l. In the grain dump and elevator, the combination with the dump-box E provided with the side opening L, and with the hoisting chains; of the chute J hinged to said box at the lower margin of said opening, and provided with the side canvas guards and the supporting rope or chain, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the portable derrick, the beam B supported by said derrick, the hoisting mechanism supported by said beam, the dump box E provided with the side opening, the chute J and the hoisting chains adjustaloly connected with said hoisting mechanism; the guide G for controlling the position of said chute, and the wagon inclines, in the manner and for the purpose specified.

3'. In a grain dump and elevator, the pulley block hoisting mechanism in combination with means for the support of the said pulley block hoisting mechanism, and a grain bin or storage heuse having a guide strip G affixed extending from its base to its grain door, the grain box provided with an opening in its side facing the grain bin or house operably closed by means of a chute hinged to its lower side, connections between the pulley block hoisting mechanism and the grain box whereby the bottom of the box is horizontal when resting on the ground and is brought into an inclined position by the hoisting mechanism when raised, with the attached chute adjacent the grain door of the bin or house, and the chute hinged to the grain box at lower side of the side opening thereof, and adapted Vto be held folded up against the box to close the side opening thereof by bearing against the strip G 0f the bin or house and to fall to an inclined position when elevated above said strip to thereby permit the grain to flow from the boxA and to conduct the said flowing grain into the bin 4or house, substantially as set forth.

JOSEPH T. RICHMOND. Witnesses:

l-I. S. DAMING, F. D. DENLINGER.

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